On Thursday 22 May 2008 21:03, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2008, Nigel Henry wrote: > > When I set index options if cards are ordered incorrectly, I set these > > as: index=0 > > index=1 > > index=2 , etc > > > > On my Debian installs, including Kubuntu, /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, at > > the bottom of the file are options for abnormal drivers that try to grab > > card0. > > > > All of these drivers are set as index=-2 > > > > I looked in the man page for modprobe.conf, but there is no info about > > the values for index options. > > > > What exactly is the difference between index=2, and index=-2? > > > > Just an academic question helping me to be a bit more clued up. > > -2 means bitmask which "slots" (indexes) can be used. It's 0xfffffffe in > hexa, thus only first bit is zero (disable). It means, allocate any free > slot (index) except from slot (index) 0. > > Jaroslav Many thanks Jaroslav, that explains all. Nigel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
